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"At twenty-two years old, Sydney is enjoying a great life: She's in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers that Hunter is cheating on her--and she's forced to decide what her next move should be. Soon, Sydney finds herself captivated by her mysterious and attractive neighbor, Ridge. She can't take her eyes off him or stop listening...
2) Bluff
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[2019]
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English
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"One-time socialite Maud Warner polishes up the rags of her once glittering existence and bluffs her way into a signature New York restaurant on a sunny October day. When she walks out again, a man will have been shot. Maud has grown accustomed to being underestimated and invisible, and she uses her ability to fly under the radar as she pursues celebrity accountant Burt Sklar, the man she believes stole her mother's fortune and left her family in...
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Tallie Jones is happy with life. She's at the top of her career as a hugely successful, renowned movie director, she's in a relationship with a handsome producer and her personal assistant is also her devoted best friend. But Tallie's perfect life comes crumbling down around her when she discovers that her boyfriend's been unfaithful and, worse yet, someone's been stealing from her for years.
4) Cold war
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Criterion collection volume 1005
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Polish
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"A sweeping, delirious romance [that] begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he escapes, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged...
5) Imperium
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Polish
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A personal, detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire at the point of collapse. Kapuściński begins with his own childhood memories of the postwar Soviet occupation of Pinsk, in what was then Poland's eastern frontier, and takes us up to 1967, when, as a journalist just starting out, he traveled across Siberia and through the Soviet Union's seven southern and Central Asian republics, territories whose individual histories,...
6) Traicionada
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"A sus treinta y nueve años, Tallie Jones, directora de grandes éxitos de crítica y de público, no casa con el glamour de Hollywood, prefiere quedar al margen de los focos. En su vida privada, disfruta de una estabilidad emocional basada en el amor y en la confianza en su pareja y productor, Hunter, y en el cariño de su hija, Maxine, y de su padre, Sam. En el día a día, la cineasta se apoya en un equipo de fieles colaboradores como Brigitte,...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher
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2024.
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English
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From one of Poland's most acclaimed poets comes a new collection of poems and plays spanning almost five decades and translated for the first time. Encapsulating the prolific work of the poet and playwright Zbigniew Herbert, Reconstruction of the Poet is both a celebration of a profound life of letters and a wide-ranging collection of never-before-published work that casts new light on a much-loved poet. Spanning from 1950 to 1998, this volume of...
9) Cold war
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The Criterion Collection
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[2019]
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Polish
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A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged by their...
10) Mister
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Wydawnictwo Sonia Draga
Pub. Date
2019.
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Polish
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"Londyn, 2019. Dla Maxima Trevelyana życie było niezwykle łaskawe: uroda, arystokratyczne koneksje i pieniądze sprawiły, że nigdy nie musiał pracować, a noce rzadko spędza samotnie. To idylliczne życie przerywa jednak coś, na co mężczyzna nie jest gotowy: Maxim dziedziczy rodzinny tytuł szlachecki, cały majątek i gigantyczne posiadłości... a także wszelkie wiążące się z nimi obowiązki. To rola, z którą nie umie się zmierzyć....
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BBC
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[2019]
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English
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"When a new crime scene looks like the carbon copy of a case from her past, forensic pathologist Dr. Nikki Alexander hunts for clues to the connection before the evidence gets too hot to handle. Nikki and her London colleagues, Doctors Thomas Chamberlain and Jack Hodgson, [use] their better-late-than-never efforts to pry secrets from victims' remains and catch the killers. Did a gunman target a family of picnickers on purpose, or shoot at random?...
12) Lolita
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Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita. Thanks to the film industry's production code, the film is mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations, while the story has been transformed...
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Warszawskie Wydawnictwo Literackie
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2013.
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Polish
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Focusing on the first family in science, this biography explores Marie Curie's relationship with her two daughters. Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic...
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Wydawnictwo Albatros
Pub. Date
2020.
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Polish
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"Życie każdego człowieka składa się z serii wyborów. Niektóre z nich podejmujemy bez większego zastanowienia, niemalże automatycznie. Inne z kolei są niezwykle trudne i stawiają nas przed koniecznością emocjonalnego zmierzenia się z konsekwencjami konkretnych decyzji, które są w stanie znacząco zaważyć na naszej przyszłości. Gdy 20-letnia Gabrielle pewnego lata przeżyła swoją pierwszą miłość, nie przypuszczała nawet, jak...
15) Idealna żona
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Świat Ksiżki, Wydawnictwo
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2017.
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Polish
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Kitty Hamilton arrives in Tanganyika with high hopes for her new life. An exciting adventure halfway across the world could be just what she and Theo need to recover from the scandal that almost tore them apart. She is determined to play the role of the perfect wife, but her dreams soon begin to unravel. Theo is distracted with his important British government post, and while Kitty had imagined doing valuable work of her own, she finds that choosing...
16) Listy miłosne
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Albatros
Pub. Date
2024.
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Polish
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"Prawdziwy smakołyk dla miłośników literatury i epistolografii miłosnej. Doskonałe uzupełnienie portretu intelektualistki, literatki i ikony feminizmu, Virginii Woolf. Zbiór korespondencji dokumentującej związek dwóch kobiet - pisarek Virginii Woolf i Vity Sackville-West, poprzedzony wstępem Alison Bechdel, amerykańskiej autorki znakomitych powieści graficznych „Fun Home", „Jesteś moją matką?" i „Sekret nadludzkiej siły". Na...
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Caballeros de Colón
Pub. Date
2016.
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Español
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Uno de los mayores ejemplos de la historia del triunfo del poder espiritual sobre la violencia y la opresión se relata vívidamente en Liberando un continente: Juan Pablo II y la caída del comunismo, un nuevo documental que captura de manera conmovedora el intrincado papel desempeñado por Juan Pablo en el colapso de el comunismo y la liberación de Europa Central y Oriental. Con las ideas únicas de líderes intelectuales y culturales como el biógrafo...
18) Collected poems
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American poets project volume 32
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Library of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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A major and sometimes controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen fused a mastery of the formal lyric with a passionate engagement with themes social, religious, racial, and personal in such books as Color, Copper Sun, and The Black Christ. Certain of his poems-- "Heritage," "Yet Do I Marvel"--Are widely celebrated, but much of Cullen's work remains to be discovered. This volume restores to print a body of work of singular intensity...
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